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Detailed Outline of the Kalachakra Empowerment

Alexander Berzin
prepared for the Mongolian translator of the Kalachakra empowerment
conferred by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, August 1995

1 The Preparation Ceremony

Setting the Motivation and Conferring the Inner Empowerment
Making Requests and Causing the Disciples to Take Firm Hold of Tantra
- Requesting the Vows
- Arousing Firm Conviction in Tantra
Taking Vows, Protecting, and Being Transformed and Elevated
Tossing the Stick of the Neem Tree and Taking the Sips of Water, and So On
Arranging the Six Buddha-Families and Invoking Vajrasattva
- Arranging the Six Buddha-Families
- Invoking Vajrasattva
Enhancing the Disciples' Happiness by Explaining the Dharma and Instructing Them to Examine Their Dreams
- Enhancing the Disciples' Happiness
- Giving Instructions for Examining Dreams

2 Entering the Mandala

3 Giving the Empowerments to Those Who Have Entered (the Mandala): The Seven Empowerments of Entering Like a Child

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